The document consists of the final report of the PEEEC (Project for Early Education of Exceptional Children) Outreach program, a program to stimulate high quality programs for preschool handicapped children and families in Kentucky. Following a definition of terms are sections outlining goals, objectives, and activities of three program…

The final report details achievements and slippages of a model demonstration center which served 46 preschool handicapped children. Documented are milestones in such areas as direct and supplementary services to children (identification, evaluation); parent/family participation (large and small group meetings, individual parent participation);…

This bibliography provides an overview of the literature on: the purposes of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act; the educational community's hopes, fears, and expectations regarding ESEA; descriptions of ESEA programs and projects; and evaluations of ESEA. It is not intended to be comprehensive, but rather to be illustrative of the…

The report outlines a K-12 career education program planned and implemented for 18 months. Six goals and objectives were designed to produce career exploration and practical occupational experiences, an instructional model, student and community counseling and placement services, and inservice education. The procedures followed in developing the…

The third party evaluation report of the BHQ (Baldwin-Whitehall, Highland, and Quaker Valley) Career Education Project, a K-14 career education project in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, is presented in the document. Included in the report are discussions of the background and history of the project, a description of the evaluation design, and the…

The report presents a summary and evaluation of the two and one-half year implementation period of a career education project in the Concord Union School District, New Hampshire. The goals, activities, and accomplishments of the period are briefly described. The evaluation report is organized by the four comprehensive project goals which precede…

A procedure is given for determining various concerns for the identification of priority needs or important problems. Chapters deal with procedures for harvesting educational concerns, illustrations of the systematic harvesting of concerns, concerns classification and analysis, and conducting the need assessment. A diagram of the procedure for…

An evaluation of extension education at Haile Sellassie University is presented. It includes the following focal points: (1) extension development, (2) present extension services, (3) the need for a new concept of university extension, (4) extension in a developing country, (5) recommendations, and (6) future research. (CK)

An evaluation report is presented for a 1975 summer program for 25 6- to 12-year-old autistic children in New York City. Evaluative procedures are described, and student ratings in four skill areas (basic life skills, orientation to learning, cognitive skills, and socialization) are explained. Final results are said to indicate that all Ss…

An evaluation study assessed changes in perceived locus of control of adults who work in the drug abuse field and participated in a drug abuse training program. Two programs were examined with differing results. Outcomes are discussed with regard to group composition and scores. (Author)

This paper presents a working client/overall-program evaluation that has been used by a comprehensive out-patient drug abuse program to meet accountability requirements as well as therapeutic needs and demands. Six central criteria based on program goals are put into a rating instrument to measure client progress and program effectiveness. (Author)

An evaluation study of the computerized information services at the University of London is described in terms of successes and setbacks of the project; reactions of users, information officers, librarians and computer staff to the study; and conflicts which arose during implementation. (Author/KP)

The Child Parent Center is a pre-kindergarten program which accepts children at the age of three and keeps them for 5 years, through kindergarten and the first and second grades. (Author/AM)

Practices in educational program evaluation were examined through analyses of reports submitted to the Department of Education's Joint Dissemination Review Panel during the years 1980-1983. Content analyses of 232 reports yielded descriptive profiles of the educational programs and their evaluations. (TJH)